Pequin pepper: The Pequin pepper (or piquín) is a cultivar of hot pepper commonly used as a spice. Pequin peppers are very hot, often 5-8 times hotter than jalapeños on the Scoville scale (30-000 units). The flavor is described as lemony, smoky (if cured with wood smoke) and nutty. Taxonomically it is classified within the variety gabriusculum of the species Capsicum annuum, (family Solanaceae) I'...
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